STAND. COM. REP. NO.  947

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   H.B. No. 913

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 913, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MEDICAL COVERAGE FOR FIREFIGHTERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to provide expanded, employer-financed medical, disability indemnity, and death benefits to firefighters who develop cancer as a result of exposure to carcinogens in the line of duty.

 

     The Mayor of the County of Hawaii, Hawaii Fire Fighters Association, and an individual supported this measure.  The Employees' Retirement System opposed this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of the Attorney General, Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, State of Hawaii Organization of Police Officers, and Hawaii Medical Association provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 913, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair